Multiemployer Plans

Under the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), both health insurers and sponsors of self-funded employer health plans will be assessed a fee to fund a new Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. This fee will start at $1.00 per covered life for the first year (which is the first plan year ending on or after October 1, 2012), but will then double to $2.00 per covered life during the following year. The first deadline for paying this fee is July 31, 2013.